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Lawfare Daily: Alexandra Reeve Givens, Courtney Lang, and Nema Milaninia on the Paris AI Summit and the Pivot to AI Security

Kevin Frazier, Alexandra Reeve Givens, Courtney Lang, Nema Milaninia, Jen Patja
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 8:01 AM
What happened during the Paris AI Summit? 

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Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, Courtney Lang, Vice President of Policy for Trust, Data, and Technology at ITI and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center, and Nema Milaninia, a partner on the Special Matters & Government Investigations team at King & Spalding, join Kevin Frazier, Contributing Editor at Lawfare and Adjunct Professor at Delaware Law, to discuss the Paris AI Action Summit and whether it marks a formal pivot away from AI safety to AI security and, if so, what an embrace of AI security means for domestic and international AI governance.

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Kevin Frazier is a contributing editor at Lawfare, an adjunct professor at Delaware Law, and a Democracy and Tech Fellow with the Leadership Center for AG Studies
Alexandra Reeve Givens is the president and CEO of the Center of Democracy & Technology.
Courtney Lang is a nonresident senior fellow at the GeoTech Center of the Atlantic Council.
Nema Milaninia is a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a current partner at the law firm King & Spalding.
Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the former Deputy Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier and has been a freelance editor for over 20 years.
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